Electrocution is death or severe injury [a] caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. …

The meaning of ELECTROCUTE is to kill or severely injure by electric shock. How to use electrocute in a sentence.

ELECTROCUTE definition: to kill by electricity. See examples of electrocute used in a sentence.

If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.

ELECTROCUTED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of electrocute 2. to kill someone by causing electricity to flow…. Learn more.

1. To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire. 2. To execute (a person sentenced to death) by means of electricity.

to injure or kill somebody by passing electricity through their body be electrocuted The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track. He was electrocuted in Virginia in 2006 (= …